bruno
by usebruno
Bruno is a desktop app for building, sending and testing requests to web APIs. It saves collections as plain text files in a folder on your computer, so you can share them through Git.
- Stars
- 47.9k +9 a day
- Licence
- MIT
- Runs on
- Your computer
- Setup
- Easy
- Language
- JavaScript
- Age
- 1490 days
What you can do with it
- Send API requests and inspect the responses, including REST and GraphQL
- Store API collections as plain text files and share them through Git
- Run saved collections from the command line or in CI pipelines for automated testing
Could replace
- Postman
- Insomnia
Our suggestion based on what it does, not a feature-by-feature comparison.
Make money with it
A freelancer could offer API integration or API testing services, delivering a tested Bruno collection to clients as proof of the work.
An idea, not financial advice. Check the licence before charging for anything built on it.
Ways a business could use it
- Test and document the APIs behind your product without paying for a per-seat API client subscription
- Add automated API checks to your build pipeline to catch broken integrations before customers do
Can you use it commercially?
Free to use, change and sell, including in paid products. Keep the copyright notice.
Not legal advice. Read the project's licence file before building a product on it.
Getting it running
Download the app for Mac, Windows or Linux, or install it through a package manager such as Homebrew, Chocolatey or Snap; the command-line tool installs with npm or Docker.
Follow the official instructions in the project README.
Things to check
- Some features are only in paid commercial versions
- Offline only by design, so there is no built-in cloud sync; sharing relies on Git
Checked 27 Oct 2026. Summary drafted by AI from the project's README.
